About PACC

About Us

Empowering Local Businesses, Enriching Our Communities

Your Chamber

Building a Stronger Community Together

Real-life strategy to reach your goals.

The Parma Area Chamber of Commerce is a vibrant partnership made up of three dynamic communities: Parma, Parma Heights, and Seven Hills. We bring people and businesses together across these areas to create a thriving, connected region where businesses grow and communities prosper.

  • CONNECTIONS: Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. PACC is a partnership of people working together to build a better community. Successful Partnerships with all levels of government & community organizations make it possible for us to accomplish our goals.

  • RESOURCES: Members receive significant benefits and opportunities through our partnerships with the Council of Smaller Enterprises & the Northern Ohio Area Chambers of Commerce. Connect with members & the community through PACC activities & events.

  • COMMUNITY: The PACC plays a pivotal role in fostering connections between community leaders and business leaders. This synergy helps in building a cohesive community where both business and community leaders can work together towards shared goals, driving economic growth and enhancing the overall quality of life in the area.

Our Mission & Vision

We strive for diversity across the globe

Growth, Culture + Community

The MISSION of the Parma Area Chamber of Commerce is to develop, encourage, promote, and protect the commercial, professional, industrial, financial and general business interests of the Parma, Parma Heights, and Seven Hills area.

Our VISION is to help businesses in our community to thrive in full potential and create an economically well developed community for our future.

275+

Chamber Members

129k+

Parma Area Population

Growth, Culture + Community

Meet Our Amazing Board of Directors

Our team is ready to help your business grow

We’re proud of our commitment to the Parma area business community and have assembled a top team that can collaborate effectively while driving business and exploring issues our members face.

Joe Coughlin – Chairman

Kwik Car Wash

Megan Foster – Vice Chair

Old Brook High School, Parma Campus

Mitchell Axelrod

Eisner Gohn Group

Mitchell Axelrod

Eisner Gohn Group

Mitchell Axelrod

Eisner Gohn Group

Mitchell Axelrod

Eisner Gohn Group

Mitchell Axelrod

Eisner Gohn Group

Mitchell Axelrod

Eisner Gohn Group

Pride Award

The Parma Area Chamber of Commerce Pride Award was instituted in 1980 to honor someone who made a substantial contribution to the Parma Area. Throughout the years the PACC, serving Parma, Parma Heights and Seven Hills, has grown to include individuals, businesses and/or organizations in our local communities who have made a lasting impression and contribution to the Parma Area.

The Chamber has honored leaders in our business community, from small business to corporations. These leaders rise above the rest and have substantiated success and leadership, workforce and contributions to the community.

Do you know an Individual, Organization, or Business deserving of recognition? Do you know an Individual, Organization, or Business deserving of recognition? Nominate them for a PACC “Pride Award”.

Individuals, Organizations and Businesses are eligible for recognition. (Nominees need not be Chamber members. They must demonstrate an impact beyond employment responsibilities.)

  • Recipients must have made a positive impact in one of the following three (3) ways:

  • Conduct a project, campaign or demonstrate an ongoing active role in Chamber service area civic affairs and in doing so have exhibited:

    – Integrity, above average creativity, resource management, and/or risk taking and which has

    – Contributed significantly to the Chamber service area’s viability, image, or quality of life.

  • Develop an innovative concept, approach, or product in doing so have exhibited:

    – Integrity, above average creativity, resource management, and/or risk taking and which has

    – Contributed significantly to their industry’s and/or the Chamber service area’s viability, image, or quality of life or
    – Which has demonstrated a strong likelihood of such a contribution in the long-term

  • Demonstrate leadership in the completion of a project or campaign; pursuit of a goal or objective; or development of a concept, approach or product which has exhibited:

    – Integrity, above average creativity, resource management and/or risk taking and which has

    – Contributed significantly to their industries and the Chamber service area’s viability, image or quality of life.